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It's the best we got.

And again, the quotes are translated too.

Even though I don't think Anon speaks German, these quotes are in German and then translated back to English.

But this is as close as you'll ever get anyone from Apple to confirm the M5 Ultra or some other M5 chip.

At the moment, we have only announced the M5 Pro and M5 Max.

You sure have.

Yeah, so I'm looking forward to something that's not an M5 Pro and M5 Max in the Mac studio for WWDC.

So many people have said this, both officially and off the record, this sentiment that Apple builds chips for products.

Apple doesn't build chips and then figure out what to do with them.

That's part of the whole deal with Apple Silicon is they're not just building, oh, we should just have a, you know,

a good line of chips then we'll figure out what to do with them it's like no when a chip is designed it's for specific products now sometimes it's easy it's like oh we're making the chip for the iphone you think we're gonna have an iphone we're totally gonna have an iphone but even there it's like what features will this iphone have what are the requirements of this iphone what things do you want us to make better than the previous one um and sometimes it goes awry as we'll discuss later um but even like we've heard things about um

chips and entire computers that were originally designed and built and planned for a product that never shipped or shipped in a different form and just ended up being repurposed so you know things happen but this gets back to what we're talking about with the uh the soic mh chiplet architecture thing for the m5 pro and m5 max where there's separate dies for the cpu and gpu it's like well

Now that they've got this chiplet architecture, they can mix and match all sorts of stuff.

And they're like, no, that's not how we do it.

Yes, we will mix and match things, but only in the specific ratios, the specific combinations that we know we need for our specific products that we're planning this for.

So again, don't expect a pop-up menu on the Apple configurator where you get to choose the CPU cores and choose the GPU cores beyond the typical like binning and sliced up into pieces options that we get today.

Multilink operation, I think.

So to describe this product, it's kind of like a I don't know how you would describe it.

It's bigger than a phone.

It's kind of like a, you know, maybe four inch, three and a half inch by three and a half inch by one inch USB-C rectangle.